The 1000++ Artworks created around 1925 and ...

Max Ernst: The Artist Behind the Painting

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Introduction to the Artist and Painting

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“The Pillars of Society” is a portrait that satirizes the elite supporters of Fascism that dominated post-war Germany in 1926. Similar to a lot of paintings in his oeuvre that belong to this era, it passed a scathing critique of everything he considered to be corrupt in Germany’s bourgeois community...

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Ernst studied philosophy and psychology in Bonn and was interested in the alternative realities experienced by the insane. This painting may have been inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s study of the delusions of a paranoiac, Daniel Paul Schreber. Freud identified Schreber’s fantasy of bec...

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The Harlequin’s Carnival (Carnaval d'Arlequin in Catalan) is one of Joan Miró’s most iconic works. This painting was created about the time Miró had just joined the Surrealist movement in Paris, founded in 1924 by poet André Breton. Surrealist artists created a visual realm where the unconscious min...

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After the exhibition in February 1931, there was a turning point in Stojanović’s personal life and work: he decided to abandon writing art reviews and teaching in order to dedicate himself fully to sculpting. With a clear understanding of the treatment of the bust, as well as the approach to figurin...

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The artwork 'Solitude' by Marc Chagall is an example of a cultural treatment of alienation rather than solitude as it is often understood with regard to a person. Chagall's goal is to portray Jewish culture at the pivotal year of 1933 in Europe. The image of God's messenger, the sacrificial animal, ...

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